ORIGIN OF THE NAME

Champ de Mars. The location of the Champ de Mars was formerly the site of fortifications for the young city's defense. They were demolished at the beginning of the 19th century soon after City Hall and the Palais de Justice were built. The site's name commemorates its former military purpose; Mars was the Roman god of war, and campus Martius was a Latin term for a military exercise ground. Modern Champ de Mars, previously a parking lot, was redesigned as a park in the 1980s; the foundations of the fortifications were rediscovered at that time and can now be seen. Sometimes erroneously spelt: Champs-de-Mars.

PLATFORM DEPTH 6,1 m deep (59th deepest station)

TRAFFIC 1 839 827 entrances in 2006 (48th busiest station)

INTERSTATION DISTANCE

To Place-d'Armes: To Berri-UQAM: 370,60 metres 720,50 metres

TRIVIA

The group Héritage Montréal awarded the STCUM a Prix Orange for their work to restore Marcelle Ferron's stained-glass windows at this station. Master glassworker Aurèle E. Johnson restored the windows during the Réno-Métro program in 1999 and used new techniques to protect them from the vandalism and deterioration they had suffered up till then.